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I doubt anybody's done extensive testing or benchmarking for performance benefits when you enable/disable that feature. Most people probably leave it to the default (unchecked).

But heres some history. That setting exists to actually fix a bug in Win 3.1 that led to many legacy apps relying heavily on flush calls (forcing hdd to write buffered data to the disk). The reason they did this was because flush calls were extremely fast and the reason they were so fast was they didnt actually work! The feature was broken, lol. So when MS fixed the issue in Win 95, all such apps slowed down to a crawl. To fix this MS added back the option to break the flush calls.

"Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device"

Removed drive with write cache enabled "unsafely". Advice please?Hey,
I have a 1TB western digital external hard drive. It was infected by a virus and started slowing my computer down a lot, so i disconnected it, as my computer wasn't even responding enough to safely remove hardware.
Since caching was enabled, I was wondering if it is the drive that is...

Hardware & Devices

"install now" on windows 7 home premium provides me with "no device.."Hello, i have read up on this error, but i can't seem to find the solution :(. I know this post is common, but i feel i really do need assistance. The message comes up as "no device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers, and then click OK". I have...

Installation & Setup

BSODs, latest saying "A driver has overrun stacked based buffer"Hi,
My computer has been BSODing as of late. Whenever it BSODs I'd hard reset it and it would BSOD again right away. This would go on for about 3-5 times and then it would be fine and run stable for 4-6 hours with no problems.
The latest one said "A driver has overrun a stack based buffer"...

BSOD Help and Support

BSOD "A driver has overun a stack based buffer"It's happened 3 times now in the past 2 days, I have no guess as to whats causing it.
My windows is a 64-bit home premium OEM, It's about a year and a half old now. Haven't reinstalled the OS.
The BSOD folder and system health report are in the zip, Thanks for any assistance.